Erwin Lauper (born 14 June 1946, in Bern) is a Swiss wheelchair curler. He represents Bern CC, and began wheelchair curling in 1981.
He has competed at all World Championships since his first in 2005, winning two medals and finishing eighth in 2008; he was also part of the Swiss team which finished sixth at the 2006 Paralympics.
Nationally, he won gold at the Swiss Championships in 2005, bronze in 2006, and gold in 2007.
Wheelchair curling at the 2006 Winter Paralympics was played at the Pinerolo Palaghiaccio, in Pinerolo, 30 km southwest of Turin. Wheelchair curling was making its first appearance at the Paralympic Games and took the form of a mixed team event, open to athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body that required the everyday use of a wheelchair.
Wheelchair curling is an adaptation of curling for athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs or gait. Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation, and is one of the sports in the Winter Paralympic Games.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed at the 2006 Winter Paralympics held in Turin, Italy. The team was known by it shortened name of Great Britain, for identification purposes.
Yue Qingshuang is a Chinese curler. She previously played second on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.
Christopher Daw is a paralympian and pioneer of wheelchair sports. Internationally, he competed in adaptive track, marathons, wheelchair basketball, volleyball, wheelchair rugby, and curling for Canada. He is the only Canadian athlete to represent Canada at multiple Paralympic Games for multiple sports, and is one of the few athletes to represent Canada at both Summer & Winter Paralympic Games. In 1986, he won 6 Gold medals and set 6 world records at the first World Games for disabled youth in Nottingham, England. He was a member of the 1984 & 1988 Canadian Paralympic adaptive track teams; a member of the Canadian Wheelchair Basketball team, and member of the Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics before taking up wheelchair curling in 2000.
Michael McCreadie is a Paralympian with successes in lawn bowls and wheelchair curling. He made his debut at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg as a swimmer. He won two bronze medals in lawn bowls at the 1976 Summer Paralympics. He also competed in swimming and wheelchair basketball at the same Games and captained the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1980 Summer Paralympics. After that he coached the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Ina Forrest is a wheelchair curler selected to be second for Canada's team at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics, winning a gold medal on both occasions. She has also won a gold medal 3 times in the World Wheelchair Curling Championships, in 2009, 2011, and 2013. She was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in February 2016. She is a member of the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, British Columbia.
The World Wheelchair Curling Championship is an annual world championship held to determine the world's best team in wheelchair curling. It is held every non-Paralympic year.
James P. Armstrong is a former Canadian curler and wheelchair curler now living in Ontario. He was a successful able-bodied curler for much of his career until he had to stop playing because of bad knees and a car accident in 2003.
Rune Lorentsen is a Norwegian wheelchair curler. He won a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Tom Killin is a British multi-sport Paralympian. Killin was paralysed following a traffic accident at the age of 17.
Billy Bridges is a Canadian ice sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball player. Born in Summerside, he has spina bifida. On July 1, 2011, Bridges married former Olympic women's ice hockey player Sami Jo Small. He competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, in Para ice hockey winning a silver medal.
Angie Malone is a British Paralympian and World Champion Wheelchair curler.
Wang Haitao is a Chinese wheelchair curler. He participated at the 2014, 2018 Winter Paralympics and 2022 Winter Paralympics, winning two gold medals in 2018 and 2022.
Konstantin Vladimirovich Kurokhtin is a Russian wheelchair curler playing as skip for the Russian wheelchair curling team. He and his team won gold medals at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships.
Gary Cormack is a Canadian wheelchair curler, 2006 Winter Paralympics champion.
Manfred Bolliger is a Swiss wheelchair curler.
Harry Pavel is a German wheelchair curler.
Cynthia Mathez is a Swiss para-badminton player and curler who competes in the WH1 category. Mathez is part of the Swiss national para-badminton team and won gold at the European Para Badminton Championships with her doubles partner Karin Suter-Erath in Rodez in 2018. She competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
Françoise Jacquerod is a Swiss Paralympic skier. She represented Switzerland in Paralympic Alpine skiing at the 1988 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, and in wheelchair curling at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.
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